Christmas Dinner - what's on your plate?

[Hetyanni]

For us:
Turkey, pigs in blankets, sage & onion stuffing, roast potatoes, honey roast carrots and parsnips, brussel sprouts, steamed broccoli, peas or green beans, gravy, cranberry sauce, bread sauce.

Christmas lunch at my house. Goose and turkey, roast potatoes, mashed potatoes, pigs in blankets, roast parsnips, sprouts with bacon and chestnuts, carrots, chestnut stuffing and Irish stuffing ( bread stuffing) cranberry sauce and bread sauce, gravy.

We don’t have a starter, but have canapés and champagne before our meal.

i'm hungry now...

Leg of lamb
Pork loin (on the bone)
Roast pots
Roast parsnips
Peas
Carrots
Cauliflower & brocoli cheese
Brussels with bacon lardons
PIB
Stuffing
Gravy
Sauces
Yorkshire puddings.

East African style chicken curry with ugali and fried plantains as a starter

Roast duck with marmalade glaze for main

Warm bara brith with plain vanilla ice cream for pudding

Home made mead and cider for liquid refreshment

Usually turkey, pigs in blankets, some kind of stuffing (nothing fancy, just from a packet), roast potatoes and parsnips, carrots, Brussels sprouts, peas, braised red cabbage, gravy. DP always insists on buying cranberry sauce, of which about 1 tsp gets eaten.
This year we will be at DP's sister's on the day so I don't know what we'll eat.

@cheesecurdsandgravy that's fantastic, what a success in your first year of growing vegetables! I bet it will all be delicious!

I cook loads but everyone likes different things - I like to make sure everyone has their favourites at Christmas.

Roast lamb, roast pork, roast chicken, pigs in blankets, pork chippolatas, beef chippolatas, roast potatoes, yorkie pies, honey roast parsnips / sweet potato / carrots / red onion, broccoli & cauliflower cheese, carrot & swede mash, potato & sweet potato mash, sprouts with bacon, buttered leeks with bacon, plain buttered leeks, stuffing, gravy.

Some dishes are only for 1 person, others are for all of us so while it’s a lot to cook our plates aren’t overflowing.

Turkey
Pigs in blankets
Sausage meat stuffing
Roasties
Carrots
Red cabbage
Cauli cheese (me)
Sweetcorn
Mash
Honey roast parsnips
Gravy
Cranberry sauce

Looking forward to it already!

Turkey crown
Roast potatoes
Broccoli and cauliflower cheese
Mashed carrots and swede
Sage and onion stuffing balls
Brussel sprouts
Yorkshire puddings
Gravy

Strawberry gateuex for dessert
Various cheese and crackers
Baileys and champagne

@cheesecurdsandgravy

I accept this makes me sound like a right wanker, but, if I can’t boast anonymously on mumsnet, where can I..?! We are having sprouts, potatoes, carrots, parsnips, red cabbage and roasted onion gravy all from the garden (my first year of growing veg!) and I’ve been foraging massive wanker bit nuts all September and October for a home made nut roast - hazelnuts, walnuts and sweet chestnuts.

I’m not making my own wine… maybe next year

cheesecurdsandgravy

home grown veg sounds delicious. i am envious!

I have the image of you in the wilderness snaffling nuts like Squirrel Nutkin

Prawn Cocktail Starter (it's the law)

Turkey, Gammon, Roast Potatoes, Pigs in Blankets, Sage & Onion stuffing balls, Cauliflower Cheese, Red Cabbage, Carrot & Swede Mash, Sprouts, Gravy, Bread Sauce, Cranberry Sauce.

Dessert is Christmas Pud and 1 other, usually cheesecake

Seriously large turkey leg(s), deboned, tendons removed, stuffed with sausage meat and chestnut stuffing

Pigs in blankets
roast potatoes
sprouts, bacon and chestnuts
cauliflower cheese

Gravy.

@cheesecurdsandgravy p.s I am coming to yours next year

Turkey
Ham
Mashed potatoes
Roast potatoes
Sausage-meat stuffing
Sage and Onion Stuffing wrapped in bacon
Pigs in blankets
Roast carrots and parsnips
Peas
Gravy

There will also be cabbage, sprouts and bread sauce but I don't like them.

I could murder a big plate of Christmas dinner right now!

We usually have roast chicken, Nigella’s ham in coke with the brown sugar & treacle glaze and a small, rolled, stuffed Turkey breast from M&S as a token. My days of roasting a huge Turkey are over!

Pigs in blankets, a few different stuffings (sage & onion, pork sage & onion, pork , chestnut & cranberry), roast potatoes & maple syrup roast parsnips & carrots. Red cabbage, cauli cheese. Yorkshire puddings!

Prefer lots of lightly steamed green veg to anything else too rich - Brussels, peas, broccoli, green beans.

Gravy & cranberry sauce. Didn’t grow up with bread sauce, so don’t really understand the concept.

@Bloodybridget & @jamandmarmalade thank you! I am ridiculously, immodestly proud of my efforts. Obvs. Mr. Cheese asked why we haven’t foraged a Turkey. I told him he can poach a salmon for next year if it bothers him so much 🤣

Turkey
Sage and onion stuffing
Mash ( eldest dd hates roast)
Roast potatoes
Sprouts
Carrots
Red cabbage
Yorkshire puddings ( I know I know)
And for me only, not sure when and how this tradition started but mushy peas I adore them unlike everyone else who thinks they don't go with a Christmas lunch.

Curry!

This year -

Beef Wellington
Potato dauphinoise
2-3 veggies of some sort
Red wine jus

[quote cheesecurdsandgravy]**@Bloodybridget* & @jamandmarmalade* thank you! I am ridiculously, immodestly proud of my efforts. Obvs. Mr. Cheese asked why we haven’t foraged a Turkey. I told him he can poach a salmon for next year if it bothers him so much 🤣[/quote]
Ba-dum! Tsh!......

Does anyone have a chestnut stuffing recipe they can recommend?

@cheesecurdsandgravy

I accept this makes me sound like a right wanker, but, if I can’t boast anonymously on mumsnet, where can I..?! We are having sprouts, potatoes, carrots, parsnips, red cabbage and roasted onion gravy all from the garden (my first year of growing veg!) and I’ve been foraging massive wanker bit nuts all September and October for a home made nut roast - hazelnuts, walnuts and sweet chestnuts.

I’m not making my own wine… maybe next year

waves to a fellow forager!

This year we've had wild garlic scones, nettle pesto, elderflower cordial, blackberry crumble and jam and hoping to make rosehip syrup soon.

Smoked salmon open sandwiches and fizz to start

Then Turkey
Stuffing
Roast potatoes
Mashed potatoes
Cauliflower cheese
Carrot and swede mash
Sprouts
Pigs in blankets
Red cabbage (just for me!)

Boxing day is always bubble and squeak

New year's Day is always roast beef and we will harvest our Christmas potatoes in between Christmas and New year to eat on new year's Day

Nut roast
Richmond veggie sausages
Veggie PIB
Roast potatoes
Roast parsnips
Steamed carrots
Steamed sprouts
Red cabbage
Peas
Yorkshires
Veggie gravy
Bread sauce
Apple sauce
Cranberry sauce

(Obvs not all on my plate but this is what we’re having)

Not sure yet for pudding.